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Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha was born on 1966 in Kermanshah, Imperial State of Iran, is an Iranian journalist and fugitive embezzler. Discover Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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Her husband is Mehdi Khalaji (div.)
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Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha worth at the age of 58 years old? Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. She is from Iran. We have estimated Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha (Persian: مرجان شیخ الاسلامی آل آقا )is a former journalist, political activist, businesswoman and fugitive embezzler.
She is married to Mehdi Khalaji, the Libitzky Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an advocate of economic sanctions against Iran.
Marjan Aleagha is known for embezzling $7.4 billion in one of her cases.
She started as a journalist in reformist newspapers in late 1990s, including covering the parliament at Hambastegi newspaper.
As a member of the main reformist party, Islamic Iran Participation Front, she ran an unsuccessful campaign for a seat in Tehran in 1996 Iranian legislative election.
Later in mid 2000s she directed a news agency linked to Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, which was headed by Hamid Baghaei, a Vice President and confidant to President Ahmadinejad.
Masih Alinejad wrote in her book: "Marjan Sheikholeslami, the head of the political department of Hambastegi newspaper agreed to take me under her wing."
In 2008, she switched sides and was endorsed by allies of the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the 2008 Iranian legislative election to no avail.
In 2010, as the international sanctions against Iran intensified, she founded various companies in Iran and Turkey to help Iran bypass the sanctions and sell its petrochemical products.
In 2014, she cofounded Idea Center for Arts and Culture LLC with her husband Mehdi Khalaji and published a web magazine, Ghalamro.
The company was dissolved in 2017.
In two separate cases, she is accused of embezzling public funds in Iran.
In March 2019, Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha was formally accused of being involved in a giant embezzlement court case of a value of 6.6 billion EU of the assets of Iran National Petrochemical Company while attempting to bypass Iran sanctions.
Marjan Sheikholeslami Aleagha fled Iran in and took asylum in Canada.
According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Sheikholeslami is accused of working closely with Reza Hamzehlou, the then CEO of Iran's Petrochemical Commercial Company which was just privatised by Ahmadinejad's government, to embezzle €6.6b of petrochemical exports under the sanctions.
The case is described by Shargh newspaper as the biggest corruption case in Iranian history.
She is charged with €7,065,529 in one case and $8,710,384 embezzlement in another by an ongoing trial in Tehran.
In another case, Sheikholeslami is accused of receiving funds from Sepanir Oil and Gas Energy Engineering Company, which is owned by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to import goods which she never delivered and escaped Iran to Canada.
The amount is not disclosed yet.
While being in a political and journalism and trading career in Iran, Sheikholeslami Aleagha changed her lifestyles drastically from wearing Chador, a conservative veil or Hijab type, to being unveiled while pictured abroad after fleeing from Iran.
In her current life she is a "helping hand to Iranian government in sanctions bypass' but also married to a right-wing political activist vehemently in favor of sanctions against Iran. This contradiction has attracted a lot of attention in Persian language media, describing the couple as 'one makes sanctions and the other, bypasses them."